Rivers Quotes

In a country where nature has been so lavish and where we have been so spendthrift of indigenous beauty, to set aside a few rivers in their natural state should be considered an obligation.

Soul, a moving river. Body, the riverbed.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

The world turns softly / Not to spill its lakes and rivers.

I loved smart and fearless comedians like Joan Rivers and Don Rickles. When they started out, what they did wasn't always socially accepted, but they both had careers that lasted over 50 years.

We let a river shower its banks with a spirit that invades the people living there, and we protect that river, knowing that without its blessings the people have no source of soul.

The only reason I didn't kill myself after I read the reviews of my first book was because we have two rivers in New York and I couldn't decide which one to jumo into.

Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream.

I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable.

I love fishing. It's transcendental meditation with a punchline.

If our salmon are not healthy, then our watersheds are not healthy-and if our watersheds our not healthy, then we have truly squandered our heritage and mortgaged our future.

But when I came, alas, to wive, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, By swaggering could I never thrive, For the rain it raineth every day.

Smile, breathe, and go slowly. Thich Nhat Hanh Don't try to steer the river.

Brass is polished by ashes; copper is cleaned by tamarind; a woman, by her menses; and a river by its flow.

Writing is a strong easement for perplexity. My life is a map, spread out with all the rivers and hills showing.

Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.

You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.

The waves Of the mysterious death-river moaned; The tramp, the shout, the fearful thunder-roar Of red-breathed cannon, and the wailing cry Of myriad victims, filled the air.

At the moment I'm so exhausted that I feel like cutting my throat, so the next news masy well be that I am across the river and under the trees: what is the meaning and purpose of life? Death.

Oh! You're the people ruining the rivers.

He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide.

Only reapers, reaping early In among the bearded barley, Hear a song that echoes cheerly From the river winding clearly, Down to towered Camelot.

I sing Connecticut, her charms / Of rivers, orchards, blossoming ridges. / I sing her gardens, fences, farms, / Spiders and midges.

Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.

Sometimes we would be staked out in the middle of the river, several barges tied together. So we could party.

You've got to remember, Vermont is a lot of beautiful mountains with valleys and small brooks that run into bigger rivers.

Hitler's mind was a deep-running river. You could never tell when something it had absorbed would bob to the surface again.

I've only had one platinum album, and it's 'Red River Blue'.

Every day, TV, newspapers, and the Internet bombard us with a message that we're destroying the earth. Ice caps are melting, rivers are dying, polar bears are drowning, and trees are doing something.

Sometimes there's just no way to hold back the river.

Live like a mighty river.

I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. -Loving Frank

You never stand beside the same river twice; you have to keep looking upstream.

The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards (i.e., everything is turned topsy turvy).

Boundaries don't protect rivers, people do.

To know there is a choice is to have to make the choice: change or stay: river or rock.

I want all the interested parties to come together and develop a solution that provides additional water and helps the lower Arkansas River communities thrive again.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.

A river without banks is a large puddle.

People find gold in fields, veins, river beds, and pockets. Whichever, it takes work to get it out.

Suicide Note: The calm, Cool face of the river Asked me for a kiss. -Langston Hughes

This dream of absolute, universal equality is amazing, terrifying, and inhuman. And the moment it captures people's minds, the result is mountains of corpses and rivers of blood.

What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols.

Poetry arrived in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where it came from, from winter or a river. I don't know how or when.

Far from his illness The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests, The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays; By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.

I live in a beautiful part of the world - western New Hampshire along the Baker River - and my family and I spend a lot of time outdoors.

If you see a river running smoothly, it's because someone has drowned in it, and if it's raging, it means that it's still got bloodlust.

After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.

We knew it would rain, for the poplars showed The white of their leaves, the amber grain Shrunk in the wind,-and the lightning now Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain.

The bathroom door swings open. Emma sees the blood painting my skin and the red rivers carved on my body. Emma sees the wet knife, silver and bone. The screams of my little sister shatter mirrors.